Exclusive: Bodyguards Detail Michael Jackson’s Last 2 Years

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Exclusive: Bodyguards Detail Michael Jackson's Last 2 Years of Dwindling Finances, "Homelessness," and Mysterious Lady Friends

In the last two years of his life, Michael Jackson entertained at least two mysterious lady friends. According to his bodyguards in their chock-full-of-stories book "Remember the Time," the women simply showed up and Jackson knew them. Their code names were "Friend" and "Flower."

The former was "drop dead gorgeous." Jackson would meet her at a Hamptons Inn in Chantilly, Virginia in the summer of 2007 when he and his family were staying on the East Coast.  Was she a hooker? Did Jackson pay her? The guards don't know. The girl named "Flower" stayed at a place called– I love this– the Red Fox Inn in Middleburg, Virginia. (You can almost hear Redd Foxx shouting "Here comes the big one!")

Was there, uh, sex involved? With "Friend" in the car, one of the bodyguards drove them to see the Washington Monument at night. "All we heard was smackin' lips behind the curtain," Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard write. Cops in tactical uniforms eventually stopped them and ran the car's plates. It was registered to Michael Jackson. No ticket. But they got autographs.

Two new Michael Jackson books hit stores next week. Only one of them is of much interest. "Remember the Time" is written by the two main bodyguards who were with Jackson from the time he returned from Bahrain in December 2006 until his death on June 25th, 2009. The book should be called "Adventures in Babysitting." Whitfield and Beard have so many good stories that you can't put the book down.

Even if half of them are true, the book is a page turning "Thriller."

Unlike the other book, "Michael Jackson Inc.." which is largely a clip job with a lot of omissions and errors, "Remember the Time" is about as close and personal a collection of original observations that you can get about Jackson during that period. The two guards were with him in Las Vegas, on his circuitous trip to Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey, back to Vegas, and finally, Los Angeles for the preparation of the "This is It" tour.

All the traveling was because Jackson would not return to Neverland after the 2005 trial ended. "It's contaminated by evil," he told his kids.

Not only that, Whitfield and Beard (Whitfield especially) was there was for the arrival of "Doctor" Tohme, all the shenanigans of publicist- turned manager Raymone Bain, and even the recording of the famed Cascio tracks that turned up on the "Michael" album.

There's a lot of great stuff. Michael, they say, was obsessed with Bobby Brown's song "My Prerogative." He wanted to cover it.

A lot of "Remember the Time" has to do with money. Jackson was running out of it, like gas leaking out of a car. The ironic part is that he always had cash stashed away even as his credit cards were being turned down on romps through malls and toy stores. For weeks on end, the men say, they weren't paid, but held on out of loyalty.

The saga of their own paychecks not coming through dovetails with stories I was breaking at the time about Jackson allowing his parents' mortgage to fall into the hands of strangers, of employees at Neverland not being paid, and so on.

A few things of interest to kick us off:

Jackson's credit was so bad that AT&T asked for a $5,000 deposit when he tried to get a cell phone.

Despite refusing to see his family– and their many efforts to see him– Jackson still had father Joe Jackson on his mind. Whenever anyone wronged him, Michael would say: "I should have my father kick their asses," he'd say repeatedly.

Jackson was insulated from bad press. The only paper he read every day was The Wall Street Journal because it was the only place he wouldn't run into Michael Jackson stories. Manager Raymone Bain kept bad stories away from him, and Jackson himself didn't go on the internet.

Jackson was surprised to learn after some time that Raymone Bain wasn't running a big management office for him. Her HQ was her home in Washington DC.

During this period, Jackson relied heavily on L.A. attorney Peter Lopez (who committed suicide in 2010, a year after Jackson died). He would call Lopez and ask him, "Peter I don't know where my money is. Or how much money I have. Can you help me?"

The other lawyer during this time was Greg Cross, of the venerable DC firm Venable LLC. Bain and Venable were constantly squabbling within earshot of the bodyguards about Jackson's perilous finances.

The guards discovered that Jackson had been hoarding Tabasco sauce in his rented Las Vegas home. "A shitload of it," they write. The entire pantry in the kitchen was wall to wall with it.

Michael carried a silver briefcase with him wherever he went containing two Oscars from "Gone with the Wind." He'd paid $1.5 million for them in 1999. They were his "hard asset" in case his back was really against the wall.

They frequently took Michael and his kids out on expeditions. Jackson would be veiled or in costume. One time they passed him off as Prince, the singer. At a Chuck E. Cheese, wily daughter Paris responded "As if" when a parent asked her if her veiled father was Michael Jackson.

In Virginia, the bodyguards say they "lived" at Burlington Coat Factory, buying clothes for themselves and the kids because the summer 2007 trip had gone on longer than anyone imagined.

Michael was constantly asking the bodyguards to inquire about buying crap he saw in stores or malls. He had them plunk down $1,000 for a life size set of "Simpsons" characters he saw in a movie theater lobby.

More to come...

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http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/05/30/exclusive-bodyguards-detail-michael-jacksons-last-2-years-of-dwindling-finances-homelessness-and-mysterious-lady-friends

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Exclusive: Bodyguards Detail Michael Jackson's Last 2 Years of Dwindling Finances, "Homelessness," and Mysterious Lady Friends

In the last two years of his life, Michael Jackson entertained at least two mysterious lady friends. According to his bodyguards in their chock-full-of-stories book "Remember the Time," the women simply showed up and Jackson knew them. Their code names were "Friend" and "Flower."

The former was "drop dead gorgeous." Jackson would meet her at a Hamptons Inn in Chantilly, Virginia in the summer of 2007 when he and his family were staying on the East Coast. Was she a hooker? Did Jackson pay her? The guards don't know. The girl named "Flower" stayed at a place called– I love this– the Red Fox Inn in Middleburg, Virginia. (You can almost hear Redd Foxx shouting "Here comes the big one!")

Was there, uh, sex involved? With "Friend" in the car, one of the bodyguards drove them to see the Washington Monument at night. "All we heard was smackin' lips behind the curtain," Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard write. Cops in tactical uniforms eventually stopped them and ran the car's plates. It was registered to Michael Jackson. No ticket. But they got autographs.

Two new Michael Jackson books hit stores next week. Only one of them is of much interest. "Remember the Time" is written by the two main bodyguards who were with Jackson from the time he returned from Bahrain in December 2006 until his death on June 25th, 2009. The book should be called "Adventures in Babysitting." Whitfield and Beard have so many good stories that you can't put the book down.

Even if half of them are true, the book is a page turning "Thriller."

Unlike the other book, "Michael Jackson Inc.." which is largely a clip job with a lot of omissions and errors, "Remember the Time" is about as close and personal a collection of original observations that you can get about Jackson during that period. The two guards were with him in Las Vegas, on his circuitous trip to Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey, back to Vegas, and finally, Los Angeles for the preparation of the "This is It" tour.

All the traveling was because Jackson would not return to Neverland after the 2005 trial ended. "It's contaminated by evil," he told his kids.

Not only that, Whitfield and Beard (Whitfield especially) was there was for the arrival of "Doctor" Tohme, all the shenanigans of publicist- turned manager Raymone Bain, and even the recording of the famed Cascio tracks that turned up on the "Michael" album.

There's a lot of great stuff. Michael, they say, was obsessed with Bobby Brown's song "My Prerogative." He wanted to cover it.

A lot of "Remember the Time" has to do with money. Jackson was running out of it, like gas leaking out of a car. The ironic part is that he always had cash stashed away even as his credit cards were being turned down on romps through malls and toy stores. For weeks on end, the men say, they weren't paid, but held on out of loyalty.

The saga of their own paychecks not coming through dovetails with stories I was breaking at the time about Jackson allowing his parents' mortgage to fall into the hands of strangers, of employees at Neverland not being paid, and so on.

A few things of interest to kick us off:

Jackson's credit was so bad that AT&T asked for a $5,000 deposit when he tried to get a cell phone.

Despite refusing to see his family– and their many efforts to see him– Jackson still had father Joe Jackson on his mind. Whenever anyone wronged him, Michael would say: "I should have my father kick their asses," he'd say repeatedly.

Jackson was insulated from bad press. The only paper he read every day was The Wall Street Journal because it was the only place he wouldn't run into Michael Jackson stories. Manager Raymone Bain kept bad stories away from him, and Jackson himself didn't go on the internet.

Jackson was surprised to learn after some time that Raymone Bain wasn't running a big management office for him. Her HQ was her home in Washington DC.

During this period, Jackson relied heavily on L.A. attorney Peter Lopez (who committed suicide in 2010, a year after Jackson died). He would call Lopez and ask him, "Peter I don't know where my money is. Or how much money I have. Can you help me?"

The other lawyer during this time was Greg Cross, of the venerable DC firm Venable LLC. Bain and Venable were constantly squabbling within earshot of the bodyguards about Jackson's perilous finances.

The guards discovered that Jackson had been hoarding Tabasco sauce in his rented Las Vegas home. "A shitload of it," they write. The entire pantry in the kitchen was wall to wall with it.

Michael carried a silver briefcase with him wherever he went containing two Oscars from "Gone with the Wind." He'd paid $1.5 million for them in 1999. They were his "hard asset" in case his back was really against the wall.

They frequently took Michael and his kids out on expeditions. Jackson would be veiled or in costume. One time they passed him off as Prince, the singer. At a Chuck E. Cheese, wily daughter Paris responded "As if" when a parent asked her if her veiled father was Michael Jackson.

In Virginia, the bodyguards say they "lived" at Burlington Coat Factory, buying clothes for themselves and the kids because the summer 2007 trip had gone on longer than anyone imagined.

Michael was constantly asking the bodyguards to inquire about buying crap he saw in stores or malls. He had them plunk down $1,000 for a life size set of "Simpsons" characters he saw in a movie theater lobby.

More to come...

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http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/05/30/exclusive-bodyguards-detail-michael-jacksons-last-2-years-of-dwindling-finances-homelessness-and-mysterious-lady-friends

Say what? Hookers  :icon_e_confused:  :icon_eek:  :icon_geek: ? Oh well this is nothing new in the LALALAnd lol  :icon_lol: .We recently had another one from LALA who posed with "girls from the street"......but I guess that he,just like Jackson didn't know what was their job lol  :elvis-1405: :icon_geek:  :thjajaja121: !!!!!

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Just read this review of the book from Daily Michael.  It actually sounds pretty good. But my favorite is the last paragraph.

Hope you are enjoying doing just that MJ. 

Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days

Category: Review
Published: Monday, 21 April 2014 00:03
Hits: 510

I was given an advance copy of the "Remember the Time : Protecting Michael Jackson in his final days" by MJ's bodyguards Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard.

Below is my review and brief summary.

As a MJ fan who has read all the books written about him, I look for unique and interesting books about him. This book delivers on that front. It's not the same old stuff you read a million times before, it's the unique and first hand experiences of Bill and Javon. Just this could be enough reason to get the book.

The book covers December 2006 (when Michael returned to US) to June 2009 (his death). Although Bill and Javon worked for Michael till the day he died, the bulk of the book covers the period between December 2006 to early 2009 when Michael moved to LA. (Bill and Javon did not go to LA but was supposed to join Michael at London). Book talks about Michael's stay at Las Vegas, Virginia, New Jersey and back at Las Vegas.

The book has several heartwarming, funny and interesting and at times unbelievable stories. Michael Jackson the father is always nice to read. His interactions with his children, their love towards each other gives you warm feelings. So stuff like Michael doing laundry, Michael taking his kids to Chuck E. Cheese, fast food drive through events, after hour store visits to toy stores, go kart place, Krispy Kreme to see how donuts are made, Michael giving responsibility talk to Prince about his dog Kenya, Blanket asking for a hippopotamus as a pet after Prince got his dog Kenya and Paris got her cat Katie, Michael giving money and food to homeless people,ordering a large Tinkerbell statue from eBay, asking bodyguards to get(cough steal) a lifesize Spiderman figurines on the lampposts outside Burger King stores, Michael getting stopped by Secret Service as his car with tinted windows drove around White House etc is interesting and fun stories to read. The book also mentions visits by "Friend" and "Flower", two woman from overseas and yes Michael kissing "Friend". I don't want to give much away for the people who might buy the book.

Book mentions Michael's staff, business people, family and friends as well. Some of them are mentioned negatively (most of Michael's business associates including Bain, Feldman, Cross and Sony, as well as some of his family members such as Randy Jackson), some of them mentioned positively (such as Miko Brando and Cascios) and some just neutral.

Knowing that how some people would be interested in above, I'll provide brief details below:

Raymone Bain : generally mentioned negatively for not paying bodyguards salaries while she was paying herself and others, renting a luxury apartment for herself with what looks like MJ's money, Michael thinking he had an office in DC while Bain was working out of her home and such.

Jacksons: Bodyguards mention that Michael did not want to see his family - his orders. The only person he would see and could come unannounced was Katherine. He refused to see other family members when they came and required them to make appointments. Michael refused to see Joe once, refused to see Randy, Rebbie and Jackie (when they got in by following the chef), refused to see Randy (when he smashed his car to the gate) and only agreed to see his brothers (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine) in the security trailer after making sure Randy wasn't with them and didn't want to see Janet. Bodyguards impressions about Jacksons are mostly positive to neutral with the exception of Randy (see below) and Jermaine who they said always had an angle or some sort of deal he was working on.

Randy crashing the gate: Details of the event is provided in the book. It turns out the gate crashing event happened on Elizabeth Taylor's 75th birthday. Her people had reached out to Michael and he would attend her birthday as a surprise to her. Michael spent 2 weeks preparing to that day. Before they were supposed to leave for Taylor's birthday, bodyguards take the car to fill it with gas. When the bodyguard returns, Randy follows the car, crashes the closing gate, forces his way into the property. Bodyguards rush to the car with their guns out and see Randy with a woman passenger. Randy tells them "Get that gun out my face before I call the press." and screaming and cursing "Michael owe me money! I want my ****in' money! I ain't ****in' moving 'til I get my ****in' money! ". They tell Michael that Randy is there and what he's saying, he tells the bodyguard to get rid of him. But they can't make him leave so Michael decides he won't go to Elizabeth's birthday and goes to bed. Randy refused to leave and stayed at the driveway for hours. Bodyguards had to call Joe Jackson. When Joe came Randy told him he would call the press to tell them he was there for his money. Joe eventually convinced Randy to leave.

Sony: Mottola is mentioned as devil and Michael mentioned not really wanting to work with Sony and on Thriller 25. There's a story about Michael breaking Sony headphones. They say he didn't work on Thriller 25 with enthusiasm and did everything the last minute. Bodyguards also state that Michael eventually was paid $12 Million for the sales of Thriller 25. (Sony initially planned to take the money from Thriller 25 sales and apply it to pay MJ's debt on Sony/ATV catalog. Apparently Tohme got them to pay the $12 Million to Michael so that he could use that money as a down payment for the Las Vegas house he wanted to buy).

One of the sad thing to read that there wasn't many friends or visitors that would visit Michael. They mention nanny Grace telling them some people wouldn't take or return MJ's calls after the 2005 trial. Book mentions Miko Brando, Eddie Griffin (comedian), Chris Tucker, Jesse Jackson and Cascios as people who visited Michael and/or Michael met with. He talked with Nelson Mandela on the phone several times. Eddie Griffin mentioned as a regular visitor, Miko Brando brought his kids to play with Michael's kids, Chris Tucker and Michael went to movies together and Eddie Cascio visited Michael in Vegas and Cascio house was the only place Michael would feel safe to stay without bodyguards in front of the door. Brad Buxer visited to work on music with Michael. (unidentified) choreographers were also coming to work with him regularly as well as a Chinese film professor from USC.

The second half of the book mentions financial troubles. Although they don't blame Michael for such troubles, it's not a pretty picture. Staff not being paid, not having a house to stay, friends/business associates paying for hotels for a while and when they stop hotels were asking them leave and even locking them out. It's obvious there was some frustration on the bodyguards part in regards to not being paid. Like I said they don't blame Michael for it but the finances isn't a pretty picture.

Conrad Murray is briefly mentioned as a doctor that made a housecall when the kids were sick and occasionally came to check up on them. Only a few visits, at day time and for a short amount of time. They mention Michael's insomnia, how sometimes he would have a good day's sleep and sometimes wont. How sometimes he would be up all night and the night security would watch him move around the house - his room, studio/dance room, kitchen and such. There's almost no drug talk. Just once going to a doctor middle of the night for pain and just one time his behavior didn't seem normal / seemed like under the influence of something. That's all. No doctors, no nightly visits and no propofol - given that Michael seemed to be not sleeping most of the time.

Overall I liked the book and I recommend purchase. It's interesting and definitely unique. I enjoyed all the little stories about Michael very much and financials wasn't a pretty picture as I said before. I can't say I liked that part. Book is written in an every day language. It feels like you are sitting with Bill and Javon and they are recapping their day to you. So that's interesting too. I guess it's possible that some fans might have a trouble with this book if they feel overly protective of Michael's privacy. Yes the book mentions Michael's everyday life, stuff that wasn't known before hence private but I thought they were nicely balanced. I personally like positive stories about Michael and/or stories that show him as a normal person. But like I said it's possible that some might think this is an invasion of privacy.

Finally some quotes:

"Michael Jackson had an effect on people. It's hard to describe. Once he let people in, they started feeling possessive of him. Like, He's mine! People didn't do it on purpose; he brought it out of them because he was bigger than life. He's calling them personally, giving them leeway to dictate certain stuff, and they start to feel like, Okay, he trusts me. They see how vulnerable and hurt he is. They see all these other people trying to use him and take advantage of him. So they start to think, If I'm the one in control, I'll make sure he's okay.

So once he lets someone in, pretty soon they're starting to speak on his behalf, as opposed to letting him make his own decisions. They know if they do it, they won't get that much flak, because they know Mr. Jackson doesn't question things. They start to feel like they're in control, but to keep that control, they've got to manipulate everybody else that's trying to get at Mr. Jackson. So they're spreading lies about this person or telling Mr. Jackson not to trust that person."

---------------------------

"It wasn't necessarily that those other people were bad people. There was just a force that dictated a lot of this madness. But the way it was around Mr. Jackson, nobody trusting anybody, so much money and power in play, it just sucked you into all this drama. "

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" People look at what happened to Mr. Jackson and they want to blame somebody. "It was Dr. Murray." "It was Tohme Tohme." "It was his family." Nah. That wasn't it. It wasn't any one person. It was everything."

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"As we drove back to the house, everyone was being real quiet in the backseat. Then Blanket looked up at his daddy and said, "Daddy, can we go back to the other house? Can we go back to Neverland?" Mr. Jackson shook his head and said, "No. We can't ever go back there. That place has been contaminated by evil."

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One time, we were driving and Blanket started to say something, and Mr. Jackson kinda shushed him. The kids kept giggling and Mr. Jackson kept going, "Shhh! No, I didn't! No, I didn't!"
Blanket said, "Yes, you did, Daddy. You said that Bill looked like—"
"Shhh! "
So now I was curious. I said, "Bill looks like what?"
I looked in the rearview mirror. Blanket and Mr. Jackson were both staring at each other like, Who's gonna tell him?
Blanket looked at me and said, "Bill, Daddy says you look like the Thing!"
"The Thing? What's the Thing?"
"You know," Blanket said, "the guy from the Fantastic Four! Daddy said you look like the Thing from the Fantastic Four."
And I was like, Wow. Okay. The brother's got jokes. Then Blanket said, "And Javon looks like Frozone from The Incredibles!"
We all had a good laugh about it.

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Michael to Bill

"I just want my kids to have a better life than me," he said. "I never want them to go through what I had to go through. How would you guys feel if your kids asked you for something and you had to send someone out to get it? I appreciate what you guys do for my kids, but I'm their father. I should be the one doing those things, but I can't just get in the car and go. There are so many things I can't do for them because those people out there won't let me. You have no idea how that feels. You really don't. I just wanna live my life with my kids."

[suspicious mind]

Just read this review of the book from Daily Michael.  It actually sounds pretty good. But my favorite is the last paragraph.

Hope you are enjoying doing just that MJ. 

Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days

Category: Review
Published: Monday, 21 April 2014 00:03
Hits: 510

I was given an advance copy of the "Remember the Time : Protecting Michael Jackson in his final days" by MJ's bodyguards Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard.

Below is my review and brief summary.

As a MJ fan who has read all the books written about him, I look for unique and interesting books about him. This book delivers on that front. It's not the same old stuff you read a million times before, it's the unique and first hand experiences of Bill and Javon. Just this could be enough reason to get the book.

The book covers December 2006 (when Michael returned to US) to June 2009 (his death). Although Bill and Javon worked for Michael till the day he died, the bulk of the book covers the period between December 2006 to early 2009 when Michael moved to LA. (Bill and Javon did not go to LA but was supposed to join Michael at London). Book talks about Michael's stay at Las Vegas, Virginia, New Jersey and back at Las Vegas.

The book has several heartwarming, funny and interesting and at times unbelievable stories. Michael Jackson the father is always nice to read. His interactions with his children, their love towards each other gives you warm feelings. So stuff like Michael doing laundry, Michael taking his kids to Chuck E. Cheese, fast food drive through events, after hour store visits to toy stores, go kart place, Krispy Kreme to see how donuts are made, Michael giving responsibility talk to Prince about his dog Kenya, Blanket asking for a hippopotamus as a pet after Prince got his dog Kenya and Paris got her cat Katie, Michael giving money and food to homeless people,ordering a large Tinkerbell statue from eBay, asking bodyguards to get(cough steal) a lifesize Spiderman figurines on the lampposts outside Burger King stores, Michael getting stopped by Secret Service as his car with tinted windows drove around White House etc is interesting and fun stories to read. The book also mentions visits by "Friend" and "Flower", two woman from overseas and yes Michael kissing "Friend". I don't want to give much away for the people who might buy the book.

Book mentions Michael's staff, business people, family and friends as well. Some of them are mentioned negatively (most of Michael's business associates including Bain, Feldman, Cross and Sony, as well as some of his family members such as Randy Jackson), some of them mentioned positively (such as Miko Brando and Cascios) and some just neutral.

Knowing that how some people would be interested in above, I'll provide brief details below:

Raymone Bain : generally mentioned negatively for not paying bodyguards salaries while she was paying herself and others, renting a luxury apartment for herself with what looks like MJ's money, Michael thinking he had an office in DC while Bain was working out of her home and such.

Jacksons: Bodyguards mention that Michael did not want to see his family - his orders. The only person he would see and could come unannounced was Katherine. He refused to see other family members when they came and required them to make appointments. Michael refused to see Joe once, refused to see Randy, Rebbie and Jackie (when they got in by following the chef), refused to see Randy (when he smashed his car to the gate) and only agreed to see his brothers (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine) in the security trailer after making sure Randy wasn't with them and didn't want to see Janet. Bodyguards impressions about Jacksons are mostly positive to neutral with the exception of Randy (see below) and Jermaine who they said always had an angle or some sort of deal he was working on.

Randy crashing the gate: Details of the event is provided in the book. It turns out the gate crashing event happened on Elizabeth Taylor's 75th birthday. Her people had reached out to Michael and he would attend her birthday as a surprise to her. Michael spent 2 weeks preparing to that day. Before they were supposed to leave for Taylor's birthday, bodyguards take the car to fill it with gas. When the bodyguard returns, Randy follows the car, crashes the closing gate, forces his way into the property. Bodyguards rush to the car with their guns out and see Randy with a woman passenger. Randy tells them "Get that gun out my face before I call the press." and screaming and cursing "Michael owe me money! I want my ****in' money! I ain't ****in' moving 'til I get my ****in' money! ". They tell Michael that Randy is there and what he's saying, he tells the bodyguard to get rid of him. But they can't make him leave so Michael decides he won't go to Elizabeth's birthday and goes to bed. Randy refused to leave and stayed at the driveway for hours. Bodyguards had to call Joe Jackson. When Joe came Randy told him he would call the press to tell them he was there for his money. Joe eventually convinced Randy to leave.

Sony: Mottola is mentioned as devil and Michael mentioned not really wanting to work with Sony and on Thriller 25. There's a story about Michael breaking Sony headphones. They say he didn't work on Thriller 25 with enthusiasm and did everything the last minute. Bodyguards also state that Michael eventually was paid $12 Million for the sales of Thriller 25. (Sony initially planned to take the money from Thriller 25 sales and apply it to pay MJ's debt on Sony/ATV catalog. Apparently Tohme got them to pay the $12 Million to Michael so that he could use that money as a down payment for the Las Vegas house he wanted to buy).

One of the sad thing to read that there wasn't many friends or visitors that would visit Michael. They mention nanny Grace telling them some people wouldn't take or return MJ's calls after the 2005 trial. Book mentions Miko Brando, Eddie Griffin (comedian), Chris Tucker, Jesse Jackson and Cascios as people who visited Michael and/or Michael met with. He talked with Nelson Mandela on the phone several times. Eddie Griffin mentioned as a regular visitor, Miko Brando brought his kids to play with Michael's kids, Chris Tucker and Michael went to movies together and Eddie Cascio visited Michael in Vegas and Cascio house was the only place Michael would feel safe to stay without bodyguards in front of the door. Brad Buxer visited to work on music with Michael. (unidentified) choreographers were also coming to work with him regularly as well as a Chinese film professor from USC.

The second half of the book mentions financial troubles. Although they don't blame Michael for such troubles, it's not a pretty picture. Staff not being paid, not having a house to stay, friends/business associates paying for hotels for a while and when they stop hotels were asking them leave and even locking them out. It's obvious there was some frustration on the bodyguards part in regards to not being paid. Like I said they don't blame Michael for it but the finances isn't a pretty picture.

Conrad Murray is briefly mentioned as a doctor that made a housecall when the kids were sick and occasionally came to check up on them. Only a few visits, at day time and for a short amount of time. They mention Michael's insomnia, how sometimes he would have a good day's sleep and sometimes wont. How sometimes he would be up all night and the night security would watch him move around the house - his room, studio/dance room, kitchen and such. There's almost no drug talk. Just once going to a doctor middle of the night for pain and just one time his behavior didn't seem normal / seemed like under the influence of something. That's all. No doctors, no nightly visits and no propofol - given that Michael seemed to be not sleeping most of the time.

Overall I liked the book and I recommend purchase. It's interesting and definitely unique. I enjoyed all the little stories about Michael very much and financials wasn't a pretty picture as I said before. I can't say I liked that part. Book is written in an every day language. It feels like you are sitting with Bill and Javon and they are recapping their day to you. So that's interesting too. I guess it's possible that some fans might have a trouble with this book if they feel overly protective of Michael's privacy. Yes the book mentions Michael's everyday life, stuff that wasn't known before hence private but I thought they were nicely balanced. I personally like positive stories about Michael and/or stories that show him as a normal person. But like I said it's possible that some might think this is an invasion of privacy.

Finally some quotes:

"Michael Jackson had an effect on people. It's hard to describe. Once he let people in, they started feeling possessive of him. Like, He's mine! People didn't do it on purpose; he brought it out of them because he was bigger than life. He's calling them personally, giving them leeway to dictate certain stuff, and they start to feel like, Okay, he trusts me. They see how vulnerable and hurt he is. They see all these other people trying to use him and take advantage of him. So they start to think, If I'm the one in control, I'll make sure he's okay.

So once he lets someone in, pretty soon they're starting to speak on his behalf, as opposed to letting him make his own decisions. They know if they do it, they won't get that much flak, because they know Mr. Jackson doesn't question things. They start to feel like they're in control, but to keep that control, they've got to manipulate everybody else that's trying to get at Mr. Jackson. So they're spreading lies about this person or telling Mr. Jackson not to trust that person."

---------------------------

"It wasn't necessarily that those other people were bad people. There was just a force that dictated a lot of this madness. But the way it was around Mr. Jackson, nobody trusting anybody, so much money and power in play, it just sucked you into all this drama. "

--------------------
" People look at what happened to Mr. Jackson and they want to blame somebody. "It was Dr. Murray." "It was Tohme Tohme." "It was his family." Nah. That wasn't it. It wasn't any one person. It was everything."

------------------------------------------

"As we drove back to the house, everyone was being real quiet in the backseat. Then Blanket looked up at his daddy and said, "Daddy, can we go back to the other house? Can we go back to Neverland?" Mr. Jackson shook his head and said, "No. We can't ever go back there. That place has been contaminated by evil."

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One time, we were driving and Blanket started to say something, and Mr. Jackson kinda shushed him. The kids kept giggling and Mr. Jackson kept going, "Shhh! No, I didn't! No, I didn't!"
Blanket said, "Yes, you did, Daddy. You said that Bill looked like—"
"Shhh! "
So now I was curious. I said, "Bill looks like what?"
I looked in the rearview mirror. Blanket and Mr. Jackson were both staring at each other like, Who's gonna tell him?
Blanket looked at me and said, "Bill, Daddy says you look like the Thing!"
"The Thing? What's the Thing?"
"You know," Blanket said, "the guy from the Fantastic Four! Daddy said you look like the Thing from the Fantastic Four."
And I was like, Wow. Okay. The brother's got jokes. Then Blanket said, "And Javon looks like Frozone from The Incredibles!"
We all had a good laugh about it.

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Michael to Bill

"I just want my kids to have a better life than me," he said. "I never want them to go through what I had to go through. How would you guys feel if your kids asked you for something and you had to send someone out to get it? I appreciate what you guys do for my kids, but I'm their father. I should be the one doing those things, but I can't just get in the car and go. There are so many things I can't do for them because those people out there won't let me. You have no idea how that feels. You really don't. I just wanna live my life with my kids."

just my opinion but i think it would be naive to think that by then those people didn't include the fans.

[blankie]

"I just want my kids to have a better life than me," he said. "I never want them to go through what I had to go through. How would you guys feel if your kids asked you for something and you had to send someone out to get it? I appreciate what you guys do for my kids, but I'm their father. I should be the one doing those things, but I can't just get in the car and go. There are so many things I can't do for them because those people out there won't let me. You have no idea how that feels. You really don't. I just wanna live my life with my kids."

And this is what Michael is doing.....is finally enjoying his life and his  children as a free man.

I think sometimes fans were excessive , fortunately only a few.

But the important thing is that he is now happy with his children and himself.  :icon_razz:

[whatyourheartsays]

This part about MJ not being able to be the dad he wanted is disturbing.

Maybe it's not "fans" in a general way, but at least stalkers and media... But i think the life he had "because of" fans, sure includes "fans" in general.

I don't know if this would have been possible for MJ to be "random" + run his professionnal life. He built such an image of "uniqueness" about being the "king of pop" that people even forgot he could be some random dude aside from this, apart from all this smoke and mirrors and glitter and everything that goes around. It's very difficult to go from such state to "hello, i'll have 1 bread and 2 croissant please" on sunday morning's bakery.

Sometime i wonder what such world would have looked like : i mean, such famous MJ, with all the crazyness he created around him, and when on street, being considered as a normal guy. it's like hoping your  celebrity is only a 9 to 5 job and you can be free after a good day of work.

I guess any of us wished we could offer this to Michael... it's only a matter of behaviour. I never thought i'd go yell under his hotel, or run after his car, or try grab him among a crowd. I always feel ashamed when i see people do this, when i see paparazzi around, like bees around honey. It hurts me cause it's about taking his freedom away from him, whatever he was doing at the moment they saw him.

Just this little apart about him not feeling 100% dad because of it, is a great matter of sadness for me...i wish i could have fix this, and i hope he found a way. i really do hope so.

[curls]

Here's a bit about Murray's arrival on the scene, which seeing as I think he's a key player in the hoax I was interested in. Would a real doctor appear at your house in 'blue medical scrubs'?  Aren't they meant to restrict/prevent the spread of infection inside a hospital, in particular an operating theatre, and are taken off in theatre to prevent spreading infection once going outside?  Was some sort of scene being set here ... let's leave no-one in any doubt that this is a 'real, scrubs and all, doctor' arriving here ...or am I being over hoaxy?

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/06/michael_jackson_his_personal_security_guards_describe_the_king_of_pop_s.2.html

Beard: They'd come because of a rumor they'd heard that their brother was sick, but Mr. Jackson wasn't sick. The kids were. Back in January, they'd all come down with colds. Arrangements were made to see a private doctor at his office one evening, after regular hours. The receptionist in that office leaked the story that Michael Jackson had come in, and the family had heard about it. It seemed suspicious to them. They heard he was seen going to a doctor's office in the middle of the night, and they wanted to make sure he was okay.

Whitfield: That was the difficulty of being Michael Jackson and trying to move around in the world. Just to take his kids to the doctor required days of planning and advance work. You'd use every precaution, and all it took was 15 seconds walking past the wrong person, some nosy receptionist, and all of a sudden you've got this rumor circulating.

Paris didn't get better. Her cold wouldn't go away, and Mr. Jackson was worried she was coming down with the flu. We couldn't go to the emergency room, and Mr. Jackson didn't trust going back to some strange office. He wanted a doctor who would come to the house. So the word was put out there to find a private physician who made house calls. I was given a name and told when to expect him.

On the scheduled night, this silver BMW 745i pulled up to the driveway and a tall, slender gentleman stepped out. He was wearing light blue medical scrubs. He walked up to the gate and introduced himself.

"I'm Dr. Conrad Murray," he said. "I'm here for a visit."

I told him he was expected, opened the gate, and directed him as to where he could pull his vehicle in. He drove in, parked, and got out.

I had a confidentiality form waiting. Before I pulled it out, I asked him if he knew who he was here to see. He said no. I told him he'd need to sign the agreement before I could allow him to go inside. He said sure. I pulled it out, and he glanced at the heading on the document and saw the name Michael Jackson. His eyebrows raised up and he gave me this look, like, Are you serious?

I gave him a nod. He signed his name. We walked to the front of the house, and I rang the bell and we waited. I could see the silhouette of Mr. Jackson through the glass as he came over toward us. He opened the door, and I said, "Mr. Jackson, this is Dr. Murray. Dr. Murray, this is Mr. Jackson."

[BillieJeanKingofPop]

Leaving Michael Jackson Alone

He always used to say to us, "You guys don't know how lucky you are." Or, "You guys don't know how good you have it." In the beginning, we'd hear him say that and we'd think, Huh? You're Michael Jackson. But over time we saw what he was talking about.

We were driving outside Middleburg one day, and the kids saw a playground. They got real excited. They wanted to go play, and they begged their daddy to stop the car and come play with them. We said we didn't think it was secure; there were a few kids and parents in the area, and we didn't have masks for the kids and someone might snap a picture. Mr Jackson told us to go ahead. He said he'd wait in the car so his kids could play and no one would recognize them. So we took the children and they went and ran and played in the park. Mr Jackson stayed in the backseat, watching them from inside the car.

Bill: When you're a father and you see that? When you think about having to watch your kids from behind tinted windows while they go and play with strangers? I wouldn't trade what I have with my daughter for that. I wouldn't have switched places with him for all the money in the world.

Javon: We were Michael Jackson's personal security team. We're supposed to be these big, macho bruisers, right? Just be tough. Don't show your emotions and this and that, but it was hard sometimes. It was hard not to feel the pain he was going through. If I never knew him, and I heard somebody on the radio saying that Michael Jackson was complaining about how he couldn't go to a playground with his kids, I probably wouldn't care. I'd probably think he just needed to get over himself. But it was different seeing it firsthand and knowing what he was talking about.

It would always be the littlest things, too, that you'd notice about his life. We were in DC one day and we had some time to kill between appointments, so he asked us to drive him around to look at the city. We went out to Georgetown and wound up stopped at a red light in front of this bar, this Irish pub type of place. It was happy hour, everybody getting off work. Mr Jackson was watching the people going in and out of the bar, and he said, "One day, I'm gonna walk into one of these places and sit down and say, 'Bartender, give me a beer!' One day, I'm just gonna do it. I'm just gonna walk in and do it."

He said it the same way a twelve-year-old kid would talk about growing up to be an astronaut. Like it was this impossible dream and someday he was going to get there. After he said it, Bill and I were like, "It's no problem, sir. We'll grab a beer with you. No reason you can't. Your money says 'In God We Trust' just like everybody else's. You want to loosen up, let's go. We've got your back."

We were encouraging him. But he was too scared to go in. He said, "Those people in there won't let me."

Bill: He didn't trust strangers. Whenever he got caught in a crowd, he'd be real frantic and nervous. We were at a shopping mall in Virginia one afternoon. Javon had gone to get the car. I was waiting with Mr Jackson by the exit with mall security. Somebody had recognized him and a small crowd had formed. He was signing a few autographs, waving to folks. It was a friendly situation, not a mob or anything. As Javon pulled up and opened the door for Mr Jackson, this guy from the back of the crowd yelled out, "Fuckin' child molester!"

I heard it, plain as day. I looked at Javon; he'd heard it too. We were just praying that Mr Jackson had missed it. But after we got in the car and drove for a bit, he leaned forward and said, "Guys, did you hear somebody say something back there?"

"No, sir," I said. "I didn't hear anything. You hear anything, Javon?"

Javon shook his head. "No, sir."

Mr Jackson said, "I thought I heard someone say something very mean. I could have sworn. You guys aren't lying to me, are you?"

"No, sir."

We didn't want to lie to him, but we knew what would happen if we confirmed it. Hearing someone call him a child molester? That would completely shut him down. He'd close the door and vanish into his room for at least a week, and we didn't want that to happen.

We drove on with nobody saying anything for the next ten, fifteen minutes, and then out of the backseat he said, "I would never hurt a child. I would slit my wrists before I ever did anything to hurt a child."

For me, I never believed any of that about him. As a lifelong fan of the Jackson 5 and of him, I just didn't believe it. Growing up, I related to that family. His siblings, his father, were very similar to what my family was. They just seemed like the typical black family that was making it out of the ghetto, which is what we were all trying to do back then. I think a lot of black families felt that way about the Jacksons. We identified with them.

That started to change a little after Thriller. You still loved Michael, but he was on a level now where you couldn't identify with him as much. You started to see him doing all these things. Odd things. He's hanging out with Webster. He's hanging out with Brooke Shields. Dude's got a monkey. You knew that he was different, but I never thought he was different in a way that he would do anything to hurt a child. I never believed it the first time. I didn't believe it the second time. But by the time that second accusation and the trial came about? It didn't matter what you believed anymore. In the court of public opinion, it was already decided. He was looked upon as a freak, a weirdo.

Javon: If you were an up-and-coming comedian and you needed some easy material, you just mentioned Mr Jackson's name and little kids and you'd get the first five rows to laugh, for sure. People didn't realize just how sensitive he was about that sort of thing.

Growing up in South Central, I would have laughed at those jokes same as everyone. I wasn't part of that same generation as Bill, where people had more reverence for the Jacksons. I was more of the hip-hop generation. We loved Mr Jackson's music, but we only knew him as this eccentric rock star. You loved his songs, but you'd laugh right along when it came to his personal life. But now? When I heard stand-up comedians joking about the boss, it wasn't funny anymore. It made me angry. It was like hearing someone passing jokes about your friend or your mom.

Bill: Javon was quick to get angry, quick to want to lash out. We caught a clip of Katt Williams making fun of Mr Jackson one time, and Javon started yelling at the TV. He said, "If I ever see Katt Williams, I'm gonna slap the taste out his mouth for talking shit about the boss." And that day at the mall in Virginia, when the guy yelled out "child molester"? The second it happened, Javon was in my ear on the two-way radio. "I can see the guy who said it. I see him. You want me to take him out?"

I had to say, "No, Javon."

He was serious. And it was frustrating. That perception of him that people had was something beyond our control. It's like with Friend and Flower [women Jackson had relationships with]. With anybody else, if you heard stories about a guy sneaking into hotels with hot European models, you wouldn't even ask what that was about. But because it's Michael Jackson, people still want to believe it's something weird. But that's not what I saw. What I saw was that beneath all the eccentric behavior, there was a regular guy desperate to get out and be a regular guy. Once you were around him on a personal level, you realized that all those rumors and allegations, it just wasn't possible. As a father, if I ever thought he'd done anything harmful to a child, I'd have kicked his ass myself.

Javon: Your perspective changed completely once you knew him up close. It was the same with his relationship with his own kids. The question we always get is, "Blanket looks more like him than Prince and Paris. Do you think they're all his?" And when we first started working there, we'd ask ourselves a lot of the same questions. "What's the deal? Are those really his kids?" But once you spent time with them, and you saw the way he was with them, you just stopped thinking about it. Those were his kids. He was their father. They were a family, end of story.

Bill: Every day, all over the world, couples use surrogate mothers, donor eggs, frozen embryos. People go to all different lengths to have families, and nobody questions the legitimacy of those families. Nobody points a finger at those families and says, "Those aren't really your kids." But with Michael Jackson, people questioned his right even to be a parent. But from everything I saw, they were a better, more loving family than a lot of families I've seen. There's really nothing else to say.

On one of the weekends that we took the kids to DC, we decided to stay overnight at the Four Seasons rather than drive back out to Middleburg. Mr Jackson called me and said the kids wanted to go in the pool. So I contacted management and they agreed to close the pool for a couple hours so that Mr Jackson could use it. Following protocol, we did a sweep to make sure the area was secure. There were three hotel security cameras around the pool. We went through and made sure all of them were unplugged and disconnected. Then we escorted Mr Jackson and the little ones from their room and led them down a back staircase. The kids had their bathing suits, flip-flops, and flotation devices. Grace was with us too.

We got to the pool. Prince and Paris jumped right in; they knew how to swim. Blanket was waiting for Grace to blow up his floaties so he could get in too. While the kids swam, Mr Jackson was walking around. He was singing, lost in a tune in his head. There was something about him that seemed a little odd. He seemed a little more excited than normal, a little more upbeat. He started out singing low, just humming a little bit. Then he was tapping out a little percussion and singing louder. I looked at Javon. Javon looked at me. We figured he was in his comfort zone and doing his thing. I left to make a pass through the locker room and the exercise room, just to make sure they were still empty and no one had accidentally walked in.

Javon: Everything was fine until all of a sudden Mr Jackson looked up and saw one of these security cameras. He completely lost his mind. He started yelling. "I told you guys about this! I fucking told you!" It was like something in him snapped. He ran over to this camera and he jumped up and grabbed it and started yanking on it, like he was trying to tear the thing down.

Bill: I heard Grace screaming, "Bill! Bill!" and I came running around the corner. Mr Jackson was literally halfway up the wall, hanging off this camera, jerking it and pulling on it. I ran over toward him, yelling, "Mr Jackson! It's disconnected! It's not on! It doesn't work!"

"I don't care! I don't care!"

He'd torn the bracket loose and this camera was only hanging by a few wires, and he jumped up one more time and gave it one more snatch and he just ripped the whole thing right out of the wall. Just ripped it out with his bare hands and then took it and hurled it down and smashed it on the floor. He was yelling at it, screaming, "I hate you! I hate you! "

I ran over to him. He looked up at me. His eyes were bloodshot red. There was blood on his hands, deep lacerations in his fingers from where these metal wires had cut into him. He started screaming at me. "You guys have to watch for this! You guys have to take care of this! These are my children! I don't want people taking pictures of my children!"

I tried explaining again about the camera being off. Nothing I said mattered. It really freaked me out, the way he was acting. My immediate thought was that maybe he was on something. His demeanor was very different from anything I had ever seen before. This was new to me, and kind of scary.

Javon: Everybody got quiet and shut up. We were speechless. We didn't know what to do, how to respond, how to handle it. He eventually calmed down and decided to stay at the pool. Bill went and brought the first-aid kit down to get some gauze and peroxide and a Band-Aid for his hand. The hotel ended up charging him eight thousand dollars for the camera.

We felt bad at times like that. We actually felt bad a lot of the time. Because it was our job to protect him, but we couldn't protect him from the things that had already happened, the things that had already hurt him.

Bill: There was this one night he called me while we were in Virginia. Earlier in the evening, he'd asked me to bring him a bottle of wine. I'd brought it up to his room, and that was pretty much the last thing I did for him before I turned in. Then, around three in the morning, my phone rang. It was Mr Jackson's room number on the caller ID. I answered it, thinking there might be some kind of emergency. He said, "Bill, are you asleep? I hope I didn't wake you."

"I'm fine, sir. Is everything okay?"

He said he was just calling to talk, so we talked. About his kids, about Raymone. He said, "Sometimes I just get sick of it."

"What's that, sir?"

"All of it," he said. He sounded like he was trying not to cry, like he was choking back tears. "Why can't people just leave me alone? I'm not a circus act. I'm not an animal at the zoo. I just want to be left alone. Why can't people understand that?"

It wasn't really a back and forth kind of conversation. He spoke. I listened. A lot of the things he was saying, I didn't really have responses to. I'd never dealt with most of the things he was dealing with, so I wasn't going to sit there on the phone and pretend that I could relate to him on that level. And I knew he wasn't really calling me to get my thoughts and opinions on any of it. He was calling to vent.

"I just want my kids to have a better life than me," he said. "I never want them to go through what I had to go through. How would you guys feel if your kids asked you for something and you had to send someone out to get it? I appreciate what you guys do for my kids, but I'm their father. I should be the one doing those things, but I can't just get in the car and go. There are so many things I can't do for them because those people out there won't let me. You have no idea how that feels. You really don't. I just wanna live my life with my kids."

I said, "I understand, sir. You deserve that."

I can still remember standing there in my room, looking at myself in the mirror and not really believing that this was happening, that I was listening to Michael Jackson unburden himself to me on the phone. It was hard for me to hold back my emotions. It was a good thing we were on the phone, otherwise he'd have seen his security having a weak moment.

I was just feeling the weight of everything he was going through. By that point, guarding him had become my life. I wasn't in Virginia because I wanted to be in Virginia. I was there because he was there. If he wanted to go to Maryland tomorrow, we'd go to Maryland tomorrow. I went where he went. His reality had become my reality. And I can't say that it was a pleasant ride, his life. It was not fun. We had fun moments, but it was not fun. It was not joyful. There was a lot of turmoil, a lot of tug of war. The constant anxiety. Never knowing whom to trust.

The fact that he was calling his security guard at three in the morning says a lot about it. If he was calling me, then he really had no one else to call. Javon and I felt that, too: the isolation. He and I could at least talk to each other, share our frustrations. But we couldn't talk to our families, to our friends. We had to make excuses about why we weren't getting paid. Everything had to be locked up, kept secret. You carry that stuff around inside you and it just eats at you. So when he was talking about how he was sick of it, I understood where he was coming from. I'd only been living like this for seven, eight months, and it was already wearing me down. He'd been doing it since he was ten years old.

We talked a little while longer. He kept apologizing for having called. He said, "I don't mean to bother you with this, Bill. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry."

"It's okay, sir." "Thank you. I'm going to go to sleep now. Good night."

This is an excerpt from the book Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in his Final Days, by Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard with Tanner Colby, to be published by HarperCollins India.

Bill Whitfield, a New York native, and Javon Beard, who grew up in South Central Los Angeles, served for two and a half years as the personal security team for Michael Jackson. They have appeared on Nightline, and Good Morning America, and have worked with numerous other high-profile clients, including Sean "Diddy" Combs, Andre Harrell and Shaquille O'Neal.

Tanner Colby is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts, Belushi: A Biography, and Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America, which was nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction by the American Library Association. He is also a frequent contributor to Slate magazine.

Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard, Yahoo! India

[suspicious mind]

some of this stuff idk.  so like a couple big burly guys getting out at a park with little kids while someone waits in a car with tinted windows isn't going to draw attention?  :icon_rolleyes:

also if the reaction at the pool is not puffed up then what might that mean for the pics we were shown of him coming out of rehearsal with the kids and no mask? hummm did he decide it was time ? did finding out about it send him over the edge? if so what did he mean when he told geraldo he was about ready to take them on stage with him?  when they went to see him were they going to sit in the audience wearing mask?  what ? what? what?  :Pulling_hair:

i have become more and more suspicious of the i can't go anywhere and joe was a monster story lines. just sayin'

[RK]

I call BS on the part about Bill showing MJ how to buy collectibles online. When Neverland was raided wasn't there something like 18 computers found there?
Also, does anyone know when his security changed and was recruited from NOI? Was it only in the last months at Carolwood address before 'the escape?'
@ Suspicious.....I hear ya. Sometimes it's enough to make you wonder which MJ they are talking about.
Anyone else reading this book?

[suspicious mind]

was there ever any explanation as to why the third bodyguard dropped out of this project?  didn't he not only drop out but came out as not wanting to be identified with it at all?

humm perhaps reviewing the interviews with these guys can give some insight into what has transpired between then and the results and can see how they spoke about him during that time. remember someone , maybe twitter making a comment on who was behind them writing this book?  was that karen  or pearl or perhaps jermaine ?

also if this incindent at the pool took place wouldn't there be some scares that would have been mentioned on the autopsy or would they be too trivial?

[Starchild]

was there ever any explanation as to why the third bodyguard dropped out of this project?   didn't he not only drop out but came out as not wanting to be identified with it at all?

humm perhaps reviewing the interviews with these guys can give some insight into what has transpired between then and the results and can see how they spoke about him during that time. remember someone , maybe twitter making a comment on who was behind them writing this book?  was that karen  or pearl or perhaps jermaine ?

also if this incindent at the pool took place wouldn't there be some scares that would have been mentioned on the autopsy or would they be too trivial?

[ot]Is "Marvin" the bodyguard you're referring to? Here's something interesting from the Carlotta Chatwood Show, particularly from 5:00-6:56. Of course, the interviewers state that they don't know whether any of the info is true and point out that the "nephew" is simply a random caller.

  [/ot]
(EDIT: Suspicious, you're likely referring to Mike Garcia [?]. Marvin Butts is the bodyguard referred to in the video above.)                         

[suspicious mind]

was there ever any explanation as to why the third bodyguard dropped out of this project?   didn't he not only drop out but came out as not wanting to be identified with it at all?

humm perhaps reviewing the interviews with these guys can give some insight into what has transpired between then and the results and can see how they spoke about him during that time. remember someone , maybe twitter making a comment on who was behind them writing this book?  was that karen  or pearl or perhaps jermaine ?

also if this incindent at the pool took place wouldn't there be some scares that would have been mentioned on the autopsy or would they be too trivial?

[ot]Is "Marvin" the bodyguard you're referring to? Here's something interesting from the Carlotta Chatwood Show, particularly from 5:00-6:56. Of course, the interviewers state that they don't know whether any of the info is true and point out that the "nephew" is simply a random caller.

  [/ot]
(EDIT: Suspicious, you're likely referring to Mike Garcia [?]. Marvin Butts is the bodyguard referred to in the video above.)

yes i think so

it seems like just prior to the book coming out he made some comments or statements wanting to be clear that he wanted to be distance from this book.

[gwynned]

Poor Michael!!!!!  Couldn't even get a cell phone without a deposit.  Clinging to those Oscars, hoping they would protect him!  So naive he couldn't recognize a hooker!

Poor, POOR misunderstood Michael.   :LolLolLolLol:

[marumjj]

Unquestionably, how hard it is to be MJ. These fragments show how lonely he was. Your questions, about raising children, it's hard to say no to the children, when you have the means for them to enjoy life. IDK this book leaves me a feeling of sadness, discomfort and also because the bodyguards make reference system to Mysterious Lady Friends. Is it that MJ has no right? prostitutes? can be, why not? It's a nice mix of stories, memories that touch our hearts. On the other hand gossip that only MJ could say, if he wanted.